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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Soviet filmmaker and film theorist is arguably the very first film theorist, as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory?
(a) Smoktunovsky.
(b) Bogomolov.
(c) Kuleshov.
(d) Tarkovsky.

2. Tarkovsky claims that In cinema, man's innate drive to what, finds one of its fullest and most direct means of realization?
(a) Self-assertion.
(b) Self-denial.
(c) Self-destruction.
(d) Self-promotion.

3. What artist, born in the 1360s, is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes?
(a) Kenji Mizoguchi.
(b) Alexander Blok.
(c) Andrey Rublev.
(d) Effendi Kapiyev.

4. What is the title of Chapter VIII?
(a) The Sacrifice.
(b) The Mirror.
(c) After Nostalgia.
(d) Stalker.

5. What was the first version of The Sacrifice to be titled initially?
(a) The Witch.
(b) The Salvation.
(c) The Savior.
(d) Stalker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter VI?

2. Who penned the novel, Joseph and His Brothers?

3. In Chapter VI, Tarkovsky writes, "Devoid of spirituality, art carries its own ____ within it."

4. What is the title of Chapter VII?

5. Who wrote the following haiku: "The old pond was still / A frog jumped in the water / And a splash was heard"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the journey of the protagonist in The Sacrifice? How is Tarkovsky's life reflected in the film?

2. When was, The Sacrifice, conceived of? What drew Tarkovsky to this story?

3. What is the journey of the protagonist in Nostalgia? How is it tragic?

4. What kept Tarkovsky from quitting the cinema after Mirror?

5. What does Tarkovsky write of the director's "vision" in Chapter V?

6. How does Tarkovsky describe the difference between painting and cinema in Chapter VII?

7. What regrets and successes did Tarkovsky have for the film, Mirrror?

8. How does Tarkovsky describe the stresses of filming on The Sacrifice?

9. Describe Tarkovsky's film, Nostalgia. Where and when was it filmed?

10. What percentage of an audience is there for entertainment, according to Tarkovsky? Who must the director play to?

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